1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner
![The Counterlife](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580866517-290-image-3.jpg)
The Counterlife
Philip Roth
The Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth’s most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enac…
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist
![Beloved](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580871964-740-image-3.jpg)
Beloved
Toni Morrison
![Crossing to Safety](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581030417-6347-image-3.jpg)
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
![The Age of Grief](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581039332-7082-image-3.jpg)
The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley
![The Bonfire of the Vanities](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581036828-6876-image-3.jpg)